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21) The nowhere man
Author
Series
Nowhere Man volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
""Orphan X is the most gripping, high-octane thriller I've read in a long, long time. Hang onto your seat because Gregg Hurwitz will take you on a dizzying ride you'll not soon forget!" -Tess Gerritsen The Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It's said that when he's reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect and save them. But he's no legend. Evan Smoak is a man with...
22) Heir of Fire
Author
Series
Throne of Glass volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Royal assassin Celaena must travel to a new land to confront a truth about her heritage, while brutal and monstrous forces are gathering on the horizon, intent on enslaving her world.
Author
Series
Charles Jenkins volume 1
Language
English
Description
"A thriller of espionage, spy games, and treachery in which a former CIA officer in his early sixties is asked to travel undercover to Moscow to locate a Russian assassin only to find things are not as he was led to believe"--
Author
Series
Alexander Hawke volume 6
Language
English
Description
Someone from the past has the British crown in his sights again, and has proven once before that these threats are not to be taken lightly. This is just the call to duty British-American M16 counterterrorism operative Alex Hawke needs to get back in action -- if the madman doesn't wreak total havoc first.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The brilliant new novel in Robert B. Parker's New York Times-bestselling series featuring police chief Jesse Stone. All is quiet in Paradise, except for a spate of innocuous vandalism. Good thing, too, because Jesse Stone is preoccupied with the women in his life, both past and present. As his ex-wife, Jenn, is about to marry a Dallas real-estate tycoon, Jesse isn't too sure his relationship with former FBI agent Diana Evans is built to last. But...
Author
Series
Throne of glass volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
As the royal assassin to an evil king, eighteen-year-old Celaena Sardothien must decide what she will fight for--survival, love, or the future of a kingdom.
27) The wanted
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It seemed like a simple case--before the bodies starting piling up. Investigator Elvis Cole and his partner, Joe Pike, take on the deadliest case of their lives in the new masterpiece of suspense from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. When single mother Devon Connor hires private investigator Elvis Cole, it's because her troubled teenage son Tyson is flashing cash and she's afraid he's dealing drugs. But the truth is devastatingly different....
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Alessandra Stathos, the second daughter of a minor nobleman, makes a plan to seduce, marry, and kill the king, then rule the world, and only love can stop her.
29) Green
Author
Series
Green volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011, c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
368 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a world of political power and magic, and of Gods and mortals, a courtesan and trained assassin who calls herself "Green" finds intrigue and adventure, and many enemies, in the Undying Duke's city of Copper Downs.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Detective Jeremy Fisk tracks a serial sniper using terrifying, airborne state-of-the-art technology in this dynamic next novel in the New York Times bestselling series from Law & Order creator Dick Wolf"--Publisher.
31) The inside ring
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
32) Russian roulette
Author
Series
Alex Rider volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Presented with an unexpected assignment, Alex Rider's greatest nemesis, Yassen Gregoravich, recalls his life and the path that led him to become an assassin while his one-time friend, Alex's uncle, became a spy.
33) Red leech
Author
Series
Young Sherlock Holmes volume 2
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
338 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sherlock Holmes didn't expect to find the world's most famous assassin living in Surrey when he's meant to be dead. He finds himself on an adventure that leads him to America, to the center of a deadly web, where life and death are cheap and truth has a price no sane person would pay.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Pegasus Books edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A Lebanese-American CIA agent befriends the grandson of a reclusive Hezbollah terrorist by becoming his English tutor in order to stop the planned assassination of the U.S. secretary of state.
Author
Series
A Throne of glass novel volume 4
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
"Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. Embracing her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen, Celaena returns to the empire--for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Stephen Coonts delivers another nail-biting thriller starring CIA Director Jake Grafton and his right-hand man, Tommy Carmellini. The president of the United States stands on an outdoor stage, flanked by powerful members of his administration and party. Television crews are preparing for broadcast. High above the stage, on a nearby rooftop, a decorated sniper adjusts the scope on his rifle. Afterwards, America...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When the world's most skilled assassin murders an influential Russian politician, former MI6 operative Eve Polastri is tasked with finding and capturing her and her accomplices.
39) Markswoman
Author
Series
Asiana volume I
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 368 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After her mentor mysteriously dies, Kyra, a Markswoman, finds herself on the run from the dangerous Mistress of Mental Arts and heads into the unforgiving desert where she befriends Rustan, a disillusioned Marksman of the Order of Khur.
Author
Series
W.A.R.P volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In Victorian London, Albert Garrick, an assassin-for-hire, and his reluctant young apprentice, Riley, are transported via wormhole to modern London, where Riley teams up with a young FBI agent to stop Garrick from returning to his own time and using his newly acquired scientific knowledge and power to change the world forever.